HOUSTON – The Texas Rangers say they have not been asked to investigate the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal ICE agent and are not involved in the case.
The letter came after a group of Houston-area state lawmakers wrote to the Texas Department of Public Safety urging the agency to open a parallel investigation into the shooting, which killed Salgado Araujo in the Magnolia Park neighborhood while he was on his way to work.
“DPS has not received a request from any federal agency or official to investigate the officer-involved shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and is not participating in that investigation at this time,” the agency said in its written response to lawmakers.
What happened on Canal Street
The shooting happened around 6:50 a.m. on July 7 in the 6800 block of Canal Street, according to the Department of Homeland Security, while ICE agents were conducting what the agency calls a targeted enforcement operation. Salgado Araujo, identified by DHS as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was not the intended target of that operation, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia…